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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

How Parkinson's Disease Protein Spreads

Caption: These images show the brainstem from a control animal (top) and an animal injected with pathologic alpha-synuclein. Brown spots are immunostaining using an antibody specifically recognizing an abnormal form of alpha-synuclein.

Credit: Kelvin C. Luk, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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